Hello everyone and thank you so much for stopping by to help celebrate Hero Arts 2017 Summer Catalog Release! I’ll share more about this release, blog hop and giveaway below.
New catalog features a number of fantastic stamp sets (including some gorgeous Color Layering stamps!). I’ve had the pleasure of working with many of them prior to release as I created several cards for the catalog (and I’ll be sure to share them here over the next few weeks). The Puffer Fish stamp set, however, ended up being a pleasant surprise for me as I somehow overlooked it in the new release. I was immediately drawn to it and decided to use it to create a set of hilarious cards. If you know me, you know I love to make a silly card that is sure to put a smile on the face of its recipient. And the cards I am sharing today are (hopefully) no exception!
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CARDS DETAILS
I started working on this project by looking up puffer fish on Pinterest. I’m a bit ashamed to say I knew nothing about puffer fish (I didn’t even know there was this kind of fish) so I was both surprised and amazed! I quickly came up with a few simple scenes for these projects. I’ll explain the “You’re Swell” card in detail as it is the most complex of three. For my scene I went with two funny looking fish floating underwater along with other smaller fish.
Using Hero Arts Intense Black ink I stamped both fish onto a piece of white cardstock, cut out using coordinating dies (I used my Platinum 6 die cutting machine) and colored using Copics. Once again I used my go-to Copic colors (I’ve recently gotten some new markers and I need to update/expand my chart) and I used RV14, RV13, RV11 and R27 for the pink fish and Y19, Y15, Y11 and YR14 for the yellow fish. I also added a green fish to my two other projects and I used YG00, YG03 and YG17 for coloring.
I used a small waves stamp from the Puffer Fish set and stamped a double border – this created a horizon line for my card and separated the water from the sky. I decided to keep the sky white and color the water only. Following the same coloring method I used for this card I colored water using B00 marker. You’ll notice that I just roughly sketched the color and didn’t take any time to create neatly and evenly colored surface.
I wanted to add some additional elements to underwater area so I stamped partial waves and added air bubbles. To add dimension to the latter I went with Nuvo Drops in Sea Breeze. I had to add googly eyes to my fish to make them even funnier so I used new self-adhesive googly eyes from Hero Arts. I used the smaller size, they are a bit oversized, but still are spot on for this project.
For my other cards I added balloon strings to my fish to make them look like birthday balloons and a card to make it appear as if it was a hot air balloon!
Here are some additional photos (click image to view larger):
HOP ALONG WITH US!
Join us for an inspiration filled blog hop! You can start at the beginning at Hero Arts Blog or continue to Lydia Fiedler’s blog, she is the next stop.
GIVEAWAY!
Hero Arts is giving away three $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Please comment by Wednesday, 5/24 at 11:59pm PT. Hero Arts will announce the winners the following week.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps I’m a Puffer for You Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Frame Cuts Puffer Die Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts I’m a Puffer for You Clear Stamp and Die Combo Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Self-adhesive Googly Eyes Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Ink Pad Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Copic Sketch Marker Y11 Pale Yellow Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker Y15 Cadmium Yellow Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker Y19 Napoli Yellow Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YR14 Caramel Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker RV11 Pink Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker RV13 Tender Pink Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker RV14 Begonia Pink Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R27 Cadmium Red Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker B00 Frost Blue Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG00 Mimosa Yellow Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG03 Yellow Green Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG17 Grass Green Bold Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives Black Foam Tape Shop at: SSS |
 Be Creative Tape 3mm Sookwang Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Sea Breeze Nuvo Jewel Drops Shop at: SSS |
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Those puffer fish are too cute! Beautiful coloring.
Those fish are amazing and fun in those colors. Thanks for sharing!
Fun fish and sentiments.
Love your cards,they are so cute. Great job. Thank you for sharing with us.
Mmmmmm, another ocean stamp set to get
These puffer fish are so adorable!
Your card is so cute. Love the fish. Thanks for sharing…
Nothing cuter than puffer fish. Thanks for sharing the very funny cards.
Those puffer fishes make me smile!
Such FUN cards Yana!!
Such cute and fun cards – thanks for sharing
Love your puffer fish cards! This is my favorite stamp set from the new catalog.
I love these cards. Thank you so much for sharing.
Love these puffer fish and how you used them.
Those are the cutest puffy fish! I love them and they are so colorful. A great release.
Your puffer fish cards are super cute! Love them!
OMG SOOO cute
These cards are soooooo cute. So creative and fun. Great fun colors.
Love these adorable cards! The googlie eyes are just perfect.
Oh my gosh I love the puffer fish!!! Great cards once again.
Once again you have made a selection of the cutest cards that are so much fun. Love them.
Di.
The puffer fish are really cute!
The puffer fish are so much fun! Love the googly eyes.
Yana, This card is adorable, as always!
Your coloring looks beautiful
So cute and colorful! Happy cards!!
Beyond fun!!! I’ve got to have this puffer set!
What fun cards.
Love, love, LOVE the puffer fish! They are just too cute 🙂
What awesomely cute cards. Love them.
Love what you created; you are so talented.
Your fun and colorful cards made me smile!! Thanks for sharing.
I love your puffer fish. This is a wonderful release, thanks for the inspiration!
LOL. Love the puffer fish. Very colourful and fun cards. What a great release.
These puffer fish with the googly eyes are absolutely adorable!
So fun! I love your unexpected uses for those fish, too cute!
These just have me grinning all over the place. They are so clever, colorful and cute! 🙂
These are adorable! Love the puffer fish!
Soo fun!! Love your coloring & the googly eyes are so cute!
Oh…fabulous cards…I hadn’t noticed this set…it’s sooo cute!Thank you for the inspiration
Puffer fish are fascinating, and I love the google eyes you added to yours.
OMG! What awesome cards you made. Great job they are so adorable. I especially love the eyes!!
These puffer fish are so cute and I love the googly eyes.
Oh my gosh!!!! Those are ADORABLE!!! They made me smile. Then I showed them to my husband, and he confirmed my reaction.
your puffer fish cards are totally adorable. . . so fun!
Love the fun puffer fish cards – they make my heart smile. Great colors and ideas – thanks for sharing.
Love your puffer fish cards, especially the googly eyes. Thanks for sharing!
Cute!!!
These are such cute cards!
LOL! So adorable!!